I went to visit my brother yesterday and as I pulled up in front of his house and popped the trunk of my car open to get something out, my grown niece walked up and said, "I see you opened your trunk - you must have seen me coming out." So I said, "Of course - get in."
With proper greetings taken care of, she went to -her- car, opened the trunk and brought out her husband's old retired gaming computer. She jammed it into the trunk of my car and said he had finally got an -actual- end table to replace it. This is how my life goes some times.
So what I now have is a great big CoolerMaster tower case containing
- a 750 watt power supply
- an Asus Sabertooth 990FX (r 1.01) MOBO
- an AMD FX 6100 CPU (six cores)
- 24 GB of DDR3 RAM
- a 1 TB Seagate Barracuda plate spinner (7200 RPM)
- a "DVD RAM" optical drive
- Not one but -two- GeForce GTX 550 TI cards, each with two DVI outputs
- Eight fans! (counting the PSU, CPU and two GPU fans), all filthy to the point they probably didn't work very well.
I spent about an hour with a toothbrush and vacuum cleaner before I even powered it up - the CPU heat sink and fan were particularly disgusting but I didn't want to take the heat sink off because I didn't have any fresh paste on hand.
Some of the nice bits are that it has a great severalitude of USB ports, at least four of which are USB 3.0, and a bunch of other neat ports (firewire, multimedia in/out, GBE, etc)
When I did fire it up I immediately noticed the first major problem - it had MS Windows on it. At least that one's easy to fix with the application of a Tiny Core USB stick.

The second problem, of course, was those graphics cards. I'm not a gamer, so the ultimate in GPU performance isn't an issue for me and I'll never use more then two monitors (probably only one) so I could ditch one of the graphics cards - but will the nvidia / nouveau extensions in the repo work with these cards? (I haven't put the thing on the network yet to download that sort of thing, just booted from an old USB stick I already had on hand). I have a little bit of a phobia here because of a previous experience with an (even older) Nvidia-based card that I was never able to get working right with Tiny Core.
The final problem I'm seeing is the RAM. There are three 8GB sticks of ram (24 GB by my math) but both Win10 and Tiny Core 15 report only 12 GB.If 16 or 8 GB showed up, I would suspect that one or two of the RAM sticks was not being recognized, but seeing 12 GB doesn't seem reasonable.
Does anyone here have any experience with this combination of MOBO and graphics card and Linux.?